19 May Oil That Cooked Fries Is Now Refueling Planes The world’s biggest maker of renewable diesel says it’s creating a new market for low-carbon jet fuel as passengers slowly return to the skies. Read more...
19 May ATRI Marks 20th Anniversary The American Transportation Research Institute is marking 20 years of providing the industry with research into the issues it confronts every day. Read more...
19 May Industry Rejects Tax Proposal Targeting Trucks A Senate proposal to impose a vehicle-miles-traveled fee exclusively on commercial vehicles drew a strong rebuke from the leaders in the trucking industry. Read more...
19 May Biden Considering Point-of-Sale Rebates for Electric Car Buyers The Biden administration wants to give consumers rebates for purchasing electric vehicles to help the U.S. compete against China in manufacturing the next generation of automobiles, White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy said. Read more...
19 May ATA Extends Contract for President, CEO Chris Spear American Trucking Associations President Chris Spear has signed a contract that extends his leadership of the organization for five more years, ATA announced. Read more...
18 May China Bill to Include $52 Billion for U.S. Chip Manufacturing The Senate will include $52 billion to bolster domestic semiconductor manufacturing in a broader bill to enhance U.S. competitiveness with China, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said. Read more...
18 May At Ford Visit, Biden Says Future of Autos Is Electric Without mentioning his predecessor’s name, President Joe Biden criticized former President Donald Trump while visiting a Ford Motor Co. plant in Dearborn, Mich., on May 18, saying Trump’s rollback of fuel standards delayed an inevitable move to electric vehicles. Read more...
18 May Biden Takes Spin in Ford’s Electric F-150 President Joe Biden made an unscheduled stop at a Ford Motor Co. test track outside Detroit on May 18, where he hopped into the company’s new all-electric F-150 pickup truck and took a spin. Read more...
18 May For Freight Brokers, Managing Data Key as Volume Grows, Experts Say Artificial intelligence and machine learning are two expanding means logistics companies can use to gather and process tremendous amounts of data surrounding freight shipments. Read more...
18 May Elon Musk Loses World’s Second-Richest Ranking Elon Musk’s Twitter posts keep sending Bitcoin prices tumbling. His own fortune is heading in the same direction. On May 17, Tesla Inc.’s CEO lost his spot as the world’s second-richest person. Read more...